Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-28
THE BOLD M'GLYNN
SthI hammering at ROme-Daugers
Threatening America.

''N' ~ - a IL AieA fNtA'AN "a
tic.e by the Rev. DIR. Edward McGlynn,
entitled "Ihe New Know-Nothingism and
the Old appears in the August number
o! the Nodl A@uriom Rcr'r,r, issued to-
day.
The paper is a vivid presentation cf the
evils and dangers which, iu the writer's
opiu')n, threaten American nationality
aud American institutions from, rs he al
legc7, the avowCd purpose of German cler-
gymen to prevent the assimilation OF their
Immigrant countrymen and their offspring
to tie American type on the one hand, and
the 'olltlcal schemlng and sectarian educa-
tIonal tendencies of the Roman Catholic
Church on the other
He says there is widespread and per-
sis'cnt effort with scarcely any attempt
to conceal it, TO Germanize the Catholic
CHIrCh in the Northwest. The means to-
ward the attainment of this is to multiply
German church schools and German par
ishcs, and to make the multiplication OF
the latter an excuse and Justification for
the appointment, with the aid of German
Cardinals in Rome, OF German speaking
Bishops.
In the second point in his article-the
e7ls and dangers likely to come to Ameri-
en- institutions through the alleged polit,
iCl wire pulling aud scctarian measures in
education by the Catholic Church-Dr.
M'Glym says: There is now IN avOwed
determination ~ shown in the last Couu-
Cl, ui Baltimore, to establish all over
the country q great system of
plrOchial schools in opposition TO
the public schools, and it is made
,Ir most urgent duty ofprleSts everywhere,
under the threat Of expulsion, 10 found
such schools. The hope is not concealed
hat, when the sO-ralled Catholic vote
shall become larger, the politicians may be
iHdurrd 10 appropriate, through State ley
ISlIuon or local governments, all the funds
necessary for the support of these schools.
This has already been accomplished in
Puughkccpsic, New Haven and elsewhere
Another thing which was unheard of Il gen
Grafton aga Is the appropriation Of valuable
lands and millions of dollars of public
money to the support of all manner of
s,ctIrian Institutions under the control Of
churches, and especially of the Roman
Catholic Church,
Continuing. the writer SAYS that 1T is
not ri-kinr much To say that if there were
no public schools there would he very few
parorhlll schools, and the Catholic chill
drrn. for all the churchmcn would do for
them, wOuld grow up in british Ignorance
nj I,tt,I. " lie cites ihr fact tb,t in
Tt,Iv Franc. and other so-roIIrd Ctbolic
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t,lyi.b p,lorbial schools and that th, CO.
rIrsia>tiral authorities of Italy. while will
I'M, enough to impose on the Catholic pco-
uIr of America 80 heavy burden, do not
care to try to impose similar burden up.
ON their own people.
Dr. MrGlvnn next takes ND The act
nal and direct interference in politics OF
Eishops, Vicar Generals and Priests to
p.omn,p the trmporll objects OF the ccclc-
SiastiraI machine. He illustrates hy
r5tiuv the action oi the late Vi..,r C",, r"l
Quinn. olNrw Yorr. n directing priests TO
~, their mD"rucc 10 defeat constitutional
amend d"'ni>: the clerical alliance with
t.r r'ryd unse the it''cF oil Mgr' Preston
to Joseph ). . )onohor 'nihc late Mayor
atty campaign, me secret prohlhiiI"h L"
himself not to speak al "a political meeting
antIgonIsuc to Iammany; the abuse oi
the confessional IN the interest "i TN"
IhllmdnS 'Ilp"e, ana the efforts "i Arrh-
hS""P o"'''E'h 10 "',ra' 'he o,'l ioi Il
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seem 'hli 'ilc I'i' ol 'Ur inlnSS' 'hr alleged
e'lIs ana dangers "l Wl'lch were dreaded
predicted ANA denounced with so much
y"hCmen'e ny the elder Know N"thInIS'
Wo"In una lo-Hay huhuieaI"l" greater